Ive looked up tons of reviews on preferences and game compatibility. But i want to know how it actually works in day to day life. Was it a device that will be put to the side in a couple weeks?
Ive looked up tons of reviews on preferences and game compatibility. But i want to know how it actually works in day to day life. Was it a device that will be put to the side in a couple weeks?
I just got an Ally yesterday and have not used a Steam Deck, so I can’t give a full comparison. That being said, the Ally is rather impressive.
I’ve been playing Dying Light 2 on it. For the most part, graphics settings are set to high, I’ve enabled upscaling on it and I think I bumped down antialiasing a notch or two from maximum. For upscaling, I set it to linear performance mode.
Doing so, on battery I achieve frames around 30-45, and on charger it ranges a bit but tends to stay in the 50-60 range. Battery life on that game with those settings though will last a little over two hours, so for longer gaming sessions I’d advise bringing the charger.
I mapped one of the paddle buttons on the back to the Xbox button since out of the box it doesn’t have that, which is annoying.
Speakers are great. You get distortion at max volume, but I tend to leave mine at about 40% since they are plenty loud.
It’s light and comfortable to play on, but it does get hot playing demanding titles, and that makes it a little warm in the hands. Not uncomfortably so, but it’s noticeable.
It seems you can upgrade the SSD if you want, but I’ve been doing just fine with a fast micro SD card. Loading times aren’t super long, but they probably would be faster on the internal SSD.
Anyway if you have specific questions, let me know and I’ll try to answer.